The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-06-02
The Day More Generally Observed
by All Glasses Than Ever
Heretofore.
More People in Procession Than
EmpOria Ever Turned Out
Before.
Nearly Every Organization Well
Represented in the Pa
rade.
One Hundred Children Strew the
Graves of Our Fallen De-
tenders.
A List Of Dead Soldiers Who Lie
in MaplewoOd and Dry
Creek.
Also Of Many Names of Those
Who Lie in Unknown
Graves.

A more beautiful day rarely opened
upon our city than yesterday. The sky
was just cloudy enough to make it COM
Portable, with fine cool breeze which,
while it stirred up the dust somewhat,
yet made the marching more comfort
able than it otherwise would have been.
DRY CREEK CEMETERY.
In the forenoon the committee de-
tailed to decorate the graves at Dry
Creek cemetery went out and strewed
flowers and observed the G.. A. r. rit-
ual over the graves of the following
comrades:
Thos. Jones, 1st Kansas cavalry,
wounded at Wilson's Creek, Missouri.
Isaac Lewis, Co. III. 126th Illinois in
fantry.
Samuel Anderson, 18th Kansas.
w. L. Burress, 18th Kansas.
AT THE NORMAL.
AT II a. m. the faculty and students
Of the State Normal assembled in the
chapel, and the following interesting
programme was carried out: Song by
the entire school, America" Address
by Judge Fletcher. Miss Matte
Spencer recited Robert j. Ingersoll's
celebrated memorial Grafton in a most
pleasing manner. Song, "Cover Them
Over" Rev. F. 7. Ingalls, delivered
an appropriate five minute speech.
Rev. Sargent, the NJ. E. Pastor, and
Rev. Burger, of Illinois, each made
short talks. The alumni was repre-
scented by Mr.. George Mays. Song,
"The Battle Cry of Freedom" Miss
Eta Judd, on behalf of the Normal
School, thanked the speakers and very
nicely alluded to the G. A. r. repre-
sentatives, assuring them that Mem
orial Day and the memory Of old soldiers
would ever be solemnly celebrated and
fondly cherished by the rising genera
tions. a number of patriotic odes were
sung. President Taylor made a short
address and Rev. Sargent closed with
prayer. The following is
JUDGE FLETCHER's ADDRESS.
Ladies' and Gentlemen:
This day a great nation stands in
reVerent attitude, with swelling heart,
with moistened eye and trembling lips,
upon which hover the loving tributes
of praise, and with its millions of gar
landed hands beside the graves Of its
patriot dead. Well may we call it
memorial day for its memories are hal
lowed, its duties sacred. Aye, what
day in the year next to the Christian
Sabbath is more generally, tearfully
and prayerfully observed or moves the
heart of this great people to do such
honor, to manifest such appreciation,
. he. r-r.I1 l.
be that day above all others upon
which never-to-be-forgotten lessons of
patriotism are learned, and the princi-
pies of liberty, the love of country and
reverence for the dear old flag are in
culcated, practiced and more deeply
impressed home to the hearts of the
rising generation-they who take ouI
places-they and you who. take as q
priceless heritage the privileges this
day enjoyed at that awful cost of life
health, suffering and wealth.
How honorable, how grateful are
these manifestations of appreciation oil
the great sacrifices made, and the ser
vices rendered. and the vast good &C
complished by the one million of UnioI
Soldiers now sleeping in honoreC
graves. How sublime, how ennoblinI
the act of showering garlands of flow
ers upon their known and unknown
graves dotting, every nook and cornel
of this broad land, Offering, not ONLY
flowers, but the genuine love of true
patriotic hearts. Andthe sincere PRAYER
thanks and praise to the God of battle.
for the great victory won, and the vas
and good results attained, resulting il
good, not only to our own people, bu
to the whole world. The little CIR
in Michigan eighteen years ago, VIII,
with her widowed mother, went to
cemetery to decorate the grave of hus
band and father, a gallant soldier VIII,
died on the battle field of Gettysburg
builded better than they knew. Fo
from out that simple act has grown tn
mighty influences and results nov
accomplished for we have learned from
better methods of reconstructiol
the possibilities of a reunion of thi
once divided and unhappy country an,
the beneficent influences of fraternity
charity and loyalty. Yea, well ma
we call it Memorial Day, with its sa
cred influences and hallowed rites an
associations for the inauguration @
and the proper observance of this da
has done more to bury the hatred an
the animosities engendered by tina
war than all other agencies combined
has done more to wipe out the NORTH
cation and sting Of defeat, to mario,
the gulf between North and South, t
SoICen ana Drlng together in friendShi
and fellowship the once naughty soutl
ron and the solid northman than dil
cussion-capital or coercion. Yea, M
many friends, on Memorial Day /
Andersonville Prison Cemetery
Georgia where sleep 10000 Union SC
diers the strewing flowers and plan
ing little Union flags by the heads
the blue and gray in sincerity and loV
has done more to soften the har:
memories Of that war and the diffe
ences Of social and political section
and reunite this country than hu
dred years of legislation and discu
sion In Congress could have pOssih
accomplished.
And as the years roll on at that hist
ric place on Memorial Day, the on
Union soldiers and once Confedera
soldiers clasping hands over the gray
Of the dead from out that avn
prison pen, and dropping the lovi
tear and garlanding the graves Of DO
the blue and the gray alike, look up
God OF Battles and thank him ID
right triumphed and all are blesse
and as they raise their ewes they :
the dear old flag floating triumphan
over the united country. On this d
we resolve to forget and forgive, a
cherish only the hallOwed memor
and remember only the heroic ACHE
ments of both armies, which W,
treated and grew out Of the march, /